Turbocharged,
Now it is you who disappoint me, is “ridicule” one of the tools you hand out in your CRM kits?
I have to be honest, your statement “CRM is no more than a recognition that there is more to safe commercial flying than simply being competent at manipulating aircraft controls” threw me. Every CRM instructor I’ve had (academic, service provider and airline captain) has touted CRM as an accident reduction tool, that if I used the “assertiveness communication model” it would save my life. Which raises the question, have I been receiving “bad” CRM training for the last 16 years? And with the apparently “bad” CRM training I have received, am I better or worse off than if I had received none at all? Unfortunately (as you well know) the data to answer this question was never collected and by now the participant pool is too tainted to do a valid study.
And what is it that makes me not serious? That I question the status quo? That I want a little scientific method behind behavioral interventions in the cockpit? That I don’t agree with you? Because trust me, I have been to enough funerals to be deadly serious about anything to do with accident prevention. Please know I appreciate this open discourse. But also know that I am worried that, perhaps out of fear of setting the bar too high and failing, we set the bar too low and have become complacent with the results.